23 August 2018 Marines Test Future of Wireless Communications CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, JAPAN -- Marines with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group conducted field testing of a new Free Space Optics (FSO) system at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 21.FSO is an optical communication system that transfers data on a highly...
23 August 2018 South Korea Rotations Give Soldiers Deployment, Cultural Experience DAGMAR NORTH TRAINING AREA, South Korea -- Not even a year in the Army, Pvt. Sadearious Purce was tasked to drive one of the world's most powerful vehicles in a foreign land.Behind the controls of an M1 Abrams tank, the 18-year-old tanker and other Soldiers in his 3rd Infantry Division armored unit...
22 August 2018 Army Senior Enlisted Leaders from the Indo-Pacific Meet in Vietnam HANOI, Vietnam -- Senior noncommissioned officers and warrant officers from nine countries met in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the 4th Senior Enlisted Leader Forum (SELF IV), hosted by the United States Army Pacific, Aug. 20-23, 2018.The event is tied in with the annual Pacific Armies Management Seminar that...
22 August 2018 Sequenced Bomber Missions to Australia Showcase JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers, assigned to the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (EBS), Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, conducted two sequential bilateral training missions to Australia as part of exercise Pitch Black 18.Pitch Black, a biennial...
22 August 2018 DoD Report Details China’s Growing Military, Economic Power WASHINGTON -- China is not an enemy, but it is certainly an adversary of the United States, and the Defense Department’s 2018 report to Congress examines the trends in Chinese military developments.Congress mandates the report, titled “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s...
22 August 2018 Military Training Mission Serves thousands in Maui County MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii -- Tropic Care Maui County 2018, a U.S. military Innovative Readiness Training mission to provide no-cost medical, dental, counseling and vision care to the public on Maui, Molokai, and Lanai, concluded on Sunday, eight days after it began. By then, health services personnel from...
21 August 2018 Vietnam Welcomes Pacific Armies Management Seminar, Senior Enlisted Leader Forum HANOI, Vietnam -- Army delegations from 26 Indo-Pacific countries gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the opening ceremony of the 42nd Pacific Armies Management Seminar (PAMS XLII) and the 4th Senior Enlisted Leader Forum (SELF IV), at the Melia Hotel, Aug. 20.The United States Army Pacific (USARPAC),...
21 August 2018 U.S. Air Force Improves Interoperability, Strengthens Indo-Pacific Partnerships ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE BASE DARWIN, Australia -- U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing, Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, concluded their participation in Exercise Pitch Black 2018 (PBK18) Aug. 17, following three weeks of training events conducted in Northern Territory,...
21 August 2018 Hawaii Air National Guard Brings High Level Air Defense Expertise to Philippine Engagement MANILA, Philippines -- A team of Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG) air defense experts traveled to various air bases in the Philippines to conduct subject-matter expert exchanges with the the Philippine Air Force (PAF), Aug. 6-14, 2018.The HIANG has a long standing relationship with the PAF, and for...
21 August 2018 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division Commanding General honors POWs during memorial stone dedication HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The Commanding General of Pacific Ocean Division (POD), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Brig. Gen. Thomas Tickner, helped to honor American and Allied forces, during a memorial stone dedication Aug. 15, who were taken as Prisoners of War (POWs), following the first U.S...